De Gaulle

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize
A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year

In this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures Charles de Gaulle as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers from the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he shows how this volatile visionary of staunch faith and conservative beliefs infuriated Churchill, challenged American hegemony, recognized the limitations of colonial ambitions in Algeria and Vietnam, and put a broken France back at the center of world affairs.

"With a fluent style and near-total command of existing and newly available sources...Julian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo, for whom national interests were inseparable from personal honor."
--Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal

"A sweeping-yet-concise introduction to the most brilliant, infuriating, and ineffably French of men."
--Ross Douthat, New York Times

"Classically composed and authoritative...Jackson writes wonderful political history."
--Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

"A remarkable book in which the man widely chosen as the Greatest Frenchman is dissected, intelligently and lucidly, then put together again in an extraordinary fair-minded, highly readable portrait. Throughout, the book tells a thrilling story."
--Antonia Fraser, New Statesman

"Makes awesome reading, and is a tribute to the fascination of its subject, and to Jackson's mastery of it...A triumph, and hugely readable."
--Max Hastings, Sunday Times

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De Gaulle

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize
A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year

In this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures Charles de Gaulle as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers from the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he shows how this volatile visionary of staunch faith and conservative beliefs infuriated Churchill, challenged American hegemony, recognized the limitations of colonial ambitions in Algeria and Vietnam, and put a broken France back at the center of world affairs.

"With a fluent style and near-total command of existing and newly available sources...Julian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo, for whom national interests were inseparable from personal honor."
--Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal

"A sweeping-yet-concise introduction to the most brilliant, infuriating, and ineffably French of men."
--Ross Douthat, New York Times

"Classically composed and authoritative...Jackson writes wonderful political history."
--Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

"A remarkable book in which the man widely chosen as the Greatest Frenchman is dissected, intelligently and lucidly, then put together again in an extraordinary fair-minded, highly readable portrait. Throughout, the book tells a thrilling story."
--Antonia Fraser, New Statesman

"Makes awesome reading, and is a tribute to the fascination of its subject, and to Jackson's mastery of it...A triumph, and hugely readable."
--Max Hastings, Sunday Times

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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize
A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year

In this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures Charles de Gaulle as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers from the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he shows how this volatile visionary of staunch faith and conservative beliefs infuriated Churchill, challenged American hegemony, recognized the limitations of colonial ambitions in Algeria and Vietnam, and put a broken France back at the center of world affairs.

"With a fluent style and near-total command of existing and newly available sources...Julian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo, for whom national interests were inseparable from personal honor."
--Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal

"A sweeping-yet-concise introduction to the most brilliant, infuriating, and ineffably French of men."
--Ross Douthat, New York Times

"Classically composed and authoritative...Jackson writes wonderful political history."
--Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

"A remarkable book in which the man widely chosen as the Greatest Frenchman is dissected, intelligently and lucidly, then put together again in an extraordinary fair-minded, highly readable portrait. Throughout, the book tells a thrilling story."
--Antonia Fraser, New Statesman

"Makes awesome reading, and is a tribute to the fascination of its subject, and to Jackson's mastery of it...A triumph, and hugely readable."
--Max Hastings, Sunday Times


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674241459
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/29/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 928
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

Julian Jackson is Professor of History, Emeritus, at Queen Mary University of London and one of the foremost experts on twentieth-century France. His De Gaulle won the Duff Cooper Prize and Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, among other awards, and was a New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year. His previous books include France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Fall of France, which won the Wolfson History Prize. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes académiques, and Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgements xiii

Maps xv

Introduction xxix

Part 1 De Gaulle before 'De Gaulle', 1890-1940

1 Beginnings, 1890-1908 3

2 'A Regret That will Never Leave Me', 1908-1918 28

3 Rebuilding a Career, 1919-1932 47

4 Making a Mark, 1932-1939 71

5 The Battle of France, September 1939-June 1940 97

Part 2 Exile, 1940-1944

6 Rebellion, 1940 125

7 Survival, 1941 160

8 Inventing Gaullism 186

9 On the World Stage, September 1941-June 1942 201

10 Fighting France, July-October 1942 224

11 Power Struggles, November 1942-November 1943 244

12 Building a State in Exile, July 1943-May 1944 279

13 Liberation, June-August 1944 310

Part 3 In and Out of Power, 1944-1958

14 In Power, August 1944-May 1945 335

15 From Liberator to Saviour, May 1945-December 1946 368

16 The New Messiah, 1947-1955 393

17 In the 'Desert', 1955-1958 428

18 The 18 Brumaire of Charles de Gaulle, February-June 1958 453

19 Président du Conseil, June-December 1958 477

Part 4 Republican Monarch, 1959-1965

20 'This Affair Which Absorbs and Paralyses Us', 1959-1962 509

21 Turning Point, 1962 546

22 The Pursuit of Grandeur, 1959-1963 564

23 Going Global, 1963-1964 597

24 Modernizing Monarch, 1959-1964 616

25 Half-Time, 1965 645

Part 5 Towards the End, 1966-1970

26 Upsetting the Applecart, 1966-1967 671

27 Diminishing Returns 693

28 Revolution, 1968 709

29 The End, June 1968-November 1970 738

30 Myth, Legacy and Achievement 762

Bibliographical Note 779

Biographies 790

Notes 818

Index 871

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